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Then he spun his own chair face-about from before his desk and they sat down. It was a warm day in the middle of September. The windows were wide open on the side toward the river and there was a flicker of light on the ceiling from the sunny water. The noise of the fall was loud and incessant in the room. Somehow one never noticed it very much when the mills were running.
But somehow the collective mind of the younger set knew within a week that Marjorie's most reliable beau had made an amazing face-about and was giving an indisputable rush to Marjorie's guest. The question of the moment was how Marjorie would take it.
" Alister, you were wrong." It was an illogical face-about, but Alister responded at once. "I know it," he said. "The moment I heard your voice, I knew it. How is it, Ian," here he fell back into Gaelic "that when you are by me, I know what is right so much quicker? I don't understand it. I meant to do right, but " "But your pride got up.
The man he took to be Packer lifted his hat and spoke to a girl who was sitting at a table and drinking soda-water, but when she looked up and seemed to be Wanda Malone with a blue veil down to her nose, Canby turned on his heel, face-about, and headed violently for home. When he reached quieter streets his gait slackened, and he walked slowly, lost in deep reverie.
It was at the retreat of the Americans before the British, who had landed at Kip's Bay, that the unique spectacle was afforded of both Washington and Putnam acting in unison, both in a towering rage, and both attempting with all their might to turn their cowardly soldiers face-about to stand against the foe.
The collie, eager for work, skirted round and brought them all face-about suddenly, barking his threats along the van, and then closed in some stragglers, according to instructions received from the distance. The man stayed where he was till the flock had drifted past him; then he took his place at the rear again, the dog falling in close behind.
Chiquita burst out and this was as unexpected as Lulu's face-about. "Well, when you come to that, they're never generous to us. They make us pay for all they give us. They seem generous but they aren't really any more than we are." "They are far from generous," said Peachy. "They are ungenerous. They're tyrants. They're despots.
But if there be, I trust in God there isn't any other, or it will go badly with your poor master, Malcolm. It doesn't look like true now does it? Only such a multitude of things I thought I had done with for ever keep coming up and grinning at me. It nearly drives me mad, Malcolm; and I would fain die like a gentleman, with a cool bow and a sharp face-about."
Again there was no sign of living being about her; but she moved at once, and bounded past us at a speed the like of which I had never seen upon the deep. So remarkable a face-about seemed to dumbfound our men. They stood staring at each other like those amazed, and seeking explanation.
The change involved a radical face-about in habit and life amongst the very people who knew her past sinful life best. It meant more than change of conviction, that change actually put into practice across the grain of the habits of years, and of the lower passions, so hard to change. It is a distinct step up from the change in Nicodemus simply because there was so much more to change.
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